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Transesterification is the most common method of producing biodiesel from vegetable oils. A comparative study on the … catalyst loading in the transesterification process. The highest biodiesel yields from the optimum setting for refined canola … biodiesel yields for each of refined canola, unrefined canola and unrefined camelina were determined. Results showed that the …
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Biodiesel is a promising sustainable alternative to non-renewable petrodiesel. In this work, oils extracted from … microalgae are used for biodiesel production. To simplify the process, the extraction of the oils and their reaction are made to … (35-50 °C), reaction time (2-6 h), and methanol:oil (M:O) molar ratio (8:1-16:1) on biodiesel yield were investigated …
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4.85%, two step transesterification process was adopted for biodiesel production. In the first step, 6:1 ethanol to oil … the corresponding maximum yield was 95.49%. The biodiesel produced with optimum values of transesterification process …Increased rate of use of fossil fuels have greatly polluted the earth through harmful by-products. Biodiesel is an …
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before transesterification to obtain the desired properties in biodiesel. Similarly, poor cold flow properties and oxidative … biodiesel derived from other vegetable oils. Results show that blending SSO with palm oil before transesterification will … being blended up to 20% with petroleum fuels. Recently, the industrialisation of biodiesel is a major problem because of its …
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In the worldwide more than 95% of biodiesel production feedstocks come from edible oils. The waste cooking oils (WCO …) are an alternative feedstock for biodiesel production; its usage reduces significantly the cost of biodiesel production …
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Nano-crystalline synthetic gismondine modified via cation exchange has been utilised as a highly active and selective catalyst for the production of biofuel. In comparison with low silica zeolites FAU and LTA, K-form of gismondine, based on the maximum aluminium P (MAP) zeolite, exhibited a...
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transesterification of fried soybean oil with dimethyl carbonate using hydrobromic acid as catalyst. Optimized several factors that …
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This research utilized a combined hydrodynamic cavitation reactor to produce biodiesel. The reactor worked … alcohol with the sodium hydroxide catalyst were used for biodiesel production. The important factors of the study were: 1.pump … ratio (output energy/input energy) of the produced biodiesel to evaluate the system and modeled the performance of the …
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Recently, we have introduced a new bioeconomic indicator in order to avoid the difficulties in evaluating the process and technologies for sustainability. In this paper, we wish to improve this new indicator for the analysis of sustainability. Indeed, the indicator has been based on the exergy...
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alkaline transesterification process in this study and after that blends of diesel-biodiesel and diesel-biodiesel-n butanol … conclusion that biodiesel along with higher alcohols can be an appropriate substitute for this situation. Former investigations … have presented that biodiesel and higher alcohol can help in improving the performance and depreciating harmful exhaust …
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